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Presentation: Multi-Agent Patterns from Spotify’s AI Powered Advertising Platform

Pratik Rasam — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Pratik Rasam discusses how Spotify Ads Manager runs production-grade multi-agent systems at scale using Google ADK Java. He shares key architectural patterns, domain ownership models, deterministic guardrails, and tracing-based evaluation strategies, detailing hard-learned lessons on drawing agent boundaries, optimizing tool schemas, and managing costs while avoiding monolithic agent pitfalls.

By Pratik Rasam

Presentation: The Reinvention of the Dev Team

Hannah Foxwell — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Hannah Foxwell shares how the surge of agentic coding forces engineering leaders to rethink team dynamics. She discusses three key anchors for navigating AI-driven velocity: building software worth building, prioritizing automated safety over speed, and preserving the human element through generalist "broken comb" skillsets and sustainable on-call practices.

By Hannah Foxwell

Presentation: Building Resilient Platforms: Insights from 20+ Years in Mission-Critical Infrastructure

Matthew Liste — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:59:00 GMT

Matthew Liste explains the 12 core principles of building scalable, reliable platforms for enterprise tech teams. From avoiding technical debt and managing deprecation to building a strong engineering culture, Liste discusses how to design infrastructure platforms that reduce complexity, streamline developer workflows, and deliver long-term value for senior architects and engineering leaders.

By Matthew Liste

Presentation: Building Reusable Evaluation Frameworks for Agentic AI Products

Susan Chang — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 11:19:00 GMT

Susan Chang explains how Elastic transitioned from siloed, ad-hoc AI agent evaluations to a unified, production-grade framework. She discusses balancing LLM-as-a-judge with deterministic rules, bridging Python data science evals with TypeScript production code, and implementing deep tracing to catch regressions across complex RAG and cybersecurity workloads while preserving domain context.

By Susan Chang

Presentation: Building GenAI Platform at DoorDash

Siddharth Kodwani, Swaroop Chitlur — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Swaroop Chitlur and Sidd Kodwani share DoorDash’s journey building an internal GenAI platform. They discuss core architectural bets, transitioning from vendor-first setups to open-weights models, navigating LLM and agent gateways, and balancing accuracy, latency, and cost for over 5,000 internal users.

By Siddharth Kodwani, Swaroop Chitlur

Presentation: Managing Asynchronous APIs at Scale

Ian Cooper — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Ian Cooper discusses managing asynchronous APIs in event-driven architectures at scale. He explains the "ABCs" of messaging (Address, Binding, Contract) and shares how to tackle discovery, governance, and provisioning using AsyncAPI, CloudEvents, schema registries, and automated CI/CD infrastructure pipelines based on real-world engineering practices at Just Eat Takeaway.

By Ian Cooper

Presentation: Context is the New Code

Patrick Debois — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Patrick Debois discusses how to manage, evaluate, distribute, and observe context using proven software engineering practices. He shares how treating context like code - complete with testing, CI/CD, package managers, and security scanning - enables engineering leaders to reliably scale AI coding agents, maintain control over non-deterministic outputs, and build long-term organizational knowledge.

By Patrick Debois

Presentation: From Staff Platform Engineer to a16z Founder: What I Wish I'd Known

Gonzalo Maldonado — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:14:00 GMT

Gonzalo Maldonado explains how technical leaders can translate engineering skills into startup success using their "VC Abstraction Layer Knowledge" (VALK). They share hard-won lessons on finding product-market fit, structuring pitches like technical docs, avoiding co-founder drama, and evaluating internal platforms as commercial ventures in a post-ZIRP environment.

By Gonzalo Maldonado

Presentation: From Consumers to Builders: Turning 200 of our Team into Agent Creators in Two Weeks

Ben Maraney — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Ben Maraney shares how Forter demystified AI agent creation for technical and non-technical staff. He discusses leveraging custom MCP servers, combining no-code and code-based platforms, sidestepping complex RAG setups, and aligning security and legal teams to accelerate internal agent adoption across R&D.

By Ben Maraney